| Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...before you — It was as follow: 1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme, legislative, judiciary and executive. 2. That the legislative ought to consist of two branches. 3. That the members of the first branch of... | |
| Calvin C. Jillson - History - 2007 - 262 pages
...full scale consideration of that plan. The first resolution read: '"Resolved . . . that a national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive'" (Records, vol. 1, p. 228). Ellsworth and Gorham sought to remove the word national and to substitute... | |
| Calvin C. Jillson, Rick K. Wilson - Political Science - 1994 - 404 pages
...Congress. The first substantive motion to pass in the Federal Convention resolved "that a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary and executive" (Farrand 191 1,1: 3o). Though several members are recorded as having expressed doubts that the convention... | |
| Bernard Schwartz - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...drafted by him, which served as the basis for the new Constitution, provided expressly: "That a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary and executive."s3 In basing their deliberations upon Madison's plan, the Framers decided, at almost the... | |
| Herbert J. Storing - Business & Economics - 1995 - 490 pages
...correction of the Articles of Confederation, was replaced by a more emphatic proposal "that a national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive."6 Randolph's second proposal was that "the right of suffrage in the National Legislature... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Law - 1999 - 836 pages
...the whole House. 1. Eesolved that it is the opinion of this Committee that a national govern. ment ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive. 2. Eesolved. that the national Legislature ought to consist of Two Branches. 3 Eesolved that the members... | |
| David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...in a Committee of the whole House. 1 Resolved that is the opinion of this Committee that a national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive 2 Resolved that the national legislature ought to consist of two branches. 3 Resolved that the members... | |
| United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...Committee of the whole House. 1. Resolved that it is the opinion of this Committee that a national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive. 2. Resolved. [Tjhat the national Legislature ought to consist of Two Branches. 3. Resolved that the... | |
| Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...by introducing a series of resolutions, the most important of which read: "Resolved, That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." 32The committee adopted this resolution, as Daniel Webster also mentioned in his celebrated speech... | |
| 1830 - 578 pages
...was resolved that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislature, judiciary and executive.' The collision between these...Delaware, Virginia, North-Carolina and South-Carolina for this resolution ; Connecticut against it, and New-York divided, so that a Convention of only eight... | |
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